* In Turkey the color of mourning is violet. In most Moslem countries & in China it is white.

* The color combination with the strongest impact on people is, yellow.

* What color are Mona Lisa's eyebrows? She doesn't have any.

* The color blue, rated as the favorite by 80% of Americans, can have a calming affect on people. Depending upon the shade, the brain may send up to 11 tranquilizing chemicals to calm the body.

* Original 'Indian Yellow' was obtained at Monghyr, a town in Benghal, from the urine of cows which had been fed on mango leaves. It was found in the bazaars of Panjab in the form of large balls, having an offensive urinous odor. True Indian yellow has been absent from the market for some time; its production is said to have been prohibited in 1908. Present day Indian yellow colors are made of synthetic pigments, alternatives that are less fugitive & less offensive to the nose!
Source: The Art Paper, Daler-Rowney Newspaper for Artists, Spring 1994

* Although many of the bricks used to build the LegoLand theme park came in colors unavailable to the general public, none of the bricks came in sizes, shapes, or forms that cannot be found at a local toy store. All the bricks were either normal Lego (ages 6 & up), Duplo (for toddlers), & Primo (for babies).
[Source: The Riverside Press Enterprise]

* Brazil is the only country named after a tree (& not the other way around): 'brazil wood' (pau brasil) in archaic Portuguese means 'ember-like wood' for its strong red color, used for dyeing, the colony's first explored resource.

* Females are more specific with their colors, such as instead of saying 'blue' like men, they will say 'baby blue' et all. However, there is a statistic chart that there are more men artists.

*Women are less likely to be color blind because they need two alleles, whilst men only need one.

*People can only be color blind in shades of red and green.

*Studies show that Bulletin Boards that use the color blue get more of a response back.

*After a racial controversy, Crayola changed their 'Indian Red' crayon to another name, after a 62-year old grandmother made it up.

*The word Crayola was made by one of the co-founders wife.

*The great-great grandson of the founder of Crayola was on To Tell The Truth

*The scent of crayons is the 18th most reconizble smell.

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IndianPainter
Pros and cons are the opposite. To demostrate this, remember progress is when you move forward, and Congress is when you move backwards.

Brown is the only major color missing in the spectrum. Libya is the only nation whose flag is of a single color:green. And BTB, the saying "the moon is made of green cheese" comes from it not being literally green, but resembling fresh, unripened cheese(green as in greenhorn). "Mauve? Mauve is only pink trying to be purple." James Abbott McNeill Whistler

*People can only be color-blind in shades of red and green*

That's wrong, BoyScout. I can see red and green just fine, and the other primary colors as well. I cannot, however, discern purple (I think it's blue), pink (usually I think it's grey) and the pastel colors in the tan/beige and pale blues are lost to me.

Obviously I can see red and green, or I couldn't fly (some towers still use red, green and white light signals to pilots.) But speak to me of lavender, orchid, eggshell, beige, chartreuse, mocha, mauve, periwinkle, magenta and things like that and I won't know what you're talking about.

Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, brown, black & white - no problem. Pastels or mixed shades? Forget it.

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Gunslinger
'Never teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.'

My son's colour blindness relates to certain brown/blue/green shades, they are all the same to him.

My ex mother-in-law, a woman (it has been rumoured) has the same colour-blindness as my son.

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From over the pond....

Hmmm . . . I believe you, but what I am trying to say is something different, I think.

It deals with the cones in the eyes. Since I am not a scientist I'm having a hard time explaining it. LOL I'll go and see if I cna get the almanac I digged that fact out of.